// Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd. // SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only #include "qstringbuilder.h" #include QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE /*! \class QStringBuilder \inmodule QtCore \internal \reentrant \since 4.6 \brief The QStringBuilder class is a template class that provides a facility to build up QStrings and QByteArrays from smaller chunks. \ingroup tools \ingroup shared \ingroup string-processing To build a QString by multiple concatenations, QString::operator+() is typically used. This causes \e{n - 1} allocations when building a string from \e{n} chunks. The same is true for QByteArray. QStringBuilder uses expression templates to collect the individual chunks, compute the total size, allocate the required amount of memory for the final string object, and copy the chunks into the allocated memory. The QStringBuilder class is not to be used explicitly in user code. Instances of the class are created as return values of the operator%() function, acting on objects of the following types: For building QStrings: \list \li QString, (since 5.10:) QStringView \li QChar, QLatin1Char, (since 5.10:) \c char16_t, \li QLatin1StringView, \li (since 5.10:) \c{const char16_t[]} (\c{u"foo"}), \li QByteArray, \c char, \c{const char[]}. \endlist The types in the last list point are only available when \c QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII is not defined. For building QByteArrays: \list \li QByteArray, \c char, \c{const char[]}. \endlist Concatenating strings with operator%() generally yields better performance than using \c QString::operator+() on the same chunks if there are three or more of them, and performs equally well in other cases. \note Defining \c QT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER at build time (this is the default when building Qt libraries and tools), will make using \c {'+'} when concatenating strings work the same way as \c operator%(). \sa QLatin1StringView, QString */ /*! \internal \fn template QStringBuilder::QStringBuilder(const A &a, const B &b) Constructs a QStringBuilder from \a a and \a b. */ /*! \internal \fn template QStringBuilder::operator%(const A &a, const B &b) Returns a \c QStringBuilder object that is converted to a QString object when assigned to a variable of QString type or passed to a function that takes a QString parameter. This function is usable with arguments of any of the following types: \list \li \c QAnyStringView, \li \c QString, \c QStringView \li \c QByteArray, \c QByteArrayView, \c QLatin1StringView \li \c QChar, \c QLatin1Char, \c char, (since 5.10:) \c char16_t \li (since 5.10:) \c{const char16_t[]} (\c{u"foo"}), \endlist */ /*! \internal \fn template QByteArray QStringBuilder::toLatin1() const Returns a Latin-1 representation of the string as a QByteArray. It is undefined behavior if the string contains non-Latin1 characters. */ /*! \internal \fn template QByteArray QStringBuilder::toUtf8() const Returns a UTF-8 representation of the string as a QByteArray. */ /*! \internal Converts the UTF-8 string viewed by \a in to UTF-16 and writes the result to the buffer starting at \a out. */ void QAbstractConcatenable::convertFromUtf8(QByteArrayView in, QChar *&out) noexcept { out = QUtf8::convertToUnicode(out, in); } QT_END_NAMESPACE